11. DeFi & Aave
Aave
It is a borrowing and lending platform for cryptocurrencies
APY Based (Interest / Haraam)
Uniswap
Decentralized app that allows us to trade/swap assets and tokens with each other
Decentralized stock exchange of tokens
WETH
Stands for Wrapped Ethereum
Way to tokenize our native L1 ethereum blockchain native token
Mainnet Forking
Instead of using mock contracts in our hardhat deloy scripts, we can use the original mainnet contract address and use hardhat forking
Hardhat mainnet forking forks the mainnet (only the thing that you want to use) which allows us to eliminate need of mocks
https://hardhat.org/hardhat-network/guides/mainnet-forking.html
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